EY Law Portugal adds new equity partner and team in Finance & Projects
EY Law Portugal has hired Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues as equity partner to head its finance & projects (energy and infrastructure) practice area. The hire is accompanied by a team of six lawyers with backgrounds spanning national and international firms.
Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues joins from Abreu Advogados, where he coordinated the Projects and Structured Finance practice. Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has advised borrowers, lenders, and issuers on energy and infrastructure project finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, and M&A transactions in regulated sectors, including cross-border mandates in Angola, Mozambique, and Timor-Leste.
He is joined by Nuno Castelão (associate partner), who brings international experience from A&O Shearman (formerly Allen & Overy); Rui Ferreira de Almeida (senior associate), previously at Abreu Advogados; Ashick Remetula (principal associate), previously at Linklaters; Beatriz Baião do Nascimento (principal associate), previously at Vieira de Almeida; and Margarida Oliveira Pedro (associate), previously at Abreu Advogados. Inês Pinto da Costa (associate partner), who joined EY Law in June 2025, will also be part of the team.
Strategic rationale
The appointments form part of EY Law’s growth strategy centred on integrating senior teams with immediate execution capacity, states the law firm. With this expansion, EY Law Portugal now counts more than 40 lawyers and intends to continue hiring in both existing and new practice areas.
“EY has been consistently strengthening its ability to respond in areas that are critical to the economy and to our clients. It is within this context that we frame the integration of Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues as an Equity Partner, taking on the leadership of EY Law’s Finance & Projects (Energy and Infrastructure) practice, supported by a senior team. This decision reflects a clear institutional commitment: to deepen specialised capabilities and to ensure that the organisation also has, on the legal side, the seniority and depth required to support increasingly complex finance transactions — particularly in energy and infrastructure — while aligning this response with the expertise already well established across EY’s other service lines,” says João Nóbrega, managing partner of EY Law in Portugal.
